Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, Phd-director Of Protection And Legal Assistance For Indonesians Overseas, Foreign Ministry:
This Is The Government's Biggest Evacuation Program

INSTABILITY and chaos following air strikes aimed at the Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen has led the Foreign Ministry to activate its evacuation of Indonesian citizens program. By the ministry's count, as of September last year there are more than 4,000 Indonesian citizens living in that war-torn part of the Middle East. Twenty-three among them were arrested by the Yemeni authorities, but released on March 30.

Seven months after the government issued

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